Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meetings drag on, property values come up again and again. A former board of education chairman rises to lament that without "quality schools" only a rich Arab with a harem would want to buy his oversized colonial; a marketing vice president for Smith Corona asserts that home values are directly tied to school quality, and urges the town not to "take a meat ax to the best asset the town...
...Being outrageous" involved, among other things, dressing in drag--a display that got a gay student assaulted in Tommy's Lunch late one night last year by a man sitting in the next booth. Assaults then and now are not uncommon. Two Harvard gay students were badly beaten in the subway this spring when an angry passerby spotted them arm in arm. "Being outrageous" also included behavior which would not seem especially flamboyant if committed by heterosexual couples--like holding hands in the dining hall or on the street, and kissing each other hello in public...
...ventriloquist routine featuring a hand puppet that has a paper bag over its head. A talk-show host who is all smarm and insult jokes. A Carnegie Hall entertainer who shows cartoons, leads sing-alongs and wrestles with women volunteers from the audience. A female comic in Wayne Newton drag who unbuttons her shirt to reveal a forest of chest hair...
...term here, not evaluative. The only people laughing at Lewis' first film released since 1970 are in the movie-supporting players earning their keep by pampering the star-director-screenwriter. Jer, 55, is still the goony kid from the '50s, talking while eating a doughnut, parading in drag, leading a children's crusade through a Florida shopping mall. Hardly Working has grossed $10 million at the box office, in part because parents are taking tots to see "the original Jerk." They find themselves attending not a revival but a requiem...
...Syria and Israel braced for a violent showdown that could bring war to the region once again-and one, moreover, that conceivably could drag in the superpowers-the U.S. and the Soviet Union moved swiftly to restrain their respective allies. Caught in the middle, as always, battered Lebanon waited anxiously for others to settle its fate...